The Department of English will host Green Honors Chair, Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19 at 5 p.m. in the Kelly Center. Her lecture is titled “Boundaries, Borders and Barriers: Mapping the Future of American & African American Studies.”

Wallace-Sanders is an associate professor of American Studies and African American Studies at Emory University. Her books include the edited volume Skin Deep. Spirit Strong: Critical Essays on the Black Female Body in American Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender and Southern Memory (University of Michigan Press, 2007).

She is currently working on a unique book of 19th and early 20th century photographs called Mammies, Nannies and Love Slaves: Portraits of Black Women with White Children in the US and Brazil. Her scholarly work also appears in the following journals: Southern Quarterly, Southern Spaces, American Quarterly, Initiatives, and SAGE: A Scholarly Black Woman's Journal. Her work is also represented in: Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (Harper Collins, 1996), The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, (Oxford, 1997), The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Identity and Authority in the Academy, (SUNY Press, 2003), Women in Popular Culture: Representation and Meaning (Hampton Press, 2008) and Black Womanhood: Images Icons and ideologies of the African Body (Hood Museum, 2008).

Professor Wallace- Sanders is originally from New York. She graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A in Creative Writing and English. She holds a M.A. in English from Brown University and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. In 1997, Wallace-Sanders co-founded the Comparative Women’s Studies Program at Spelman College with the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, Beverly Guy-Sheftall. It was the very first Women’s Studies major to be established at an HBCU.

Currently at Emory University, she teaches courses on cultural representations of the female body, race, gender and visual culture, representations of race, and gender in American culture, contemporary feminisms, nineteenth-century African-American popular culture and African-American material culture.

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